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Stock Market Snaps Back From Six-Day Losing Streak

Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012

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NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Monday to snap a six-day losing streak on the S&P 500, rebounding from equities' biggest weekly...

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S&P 500 Continues Fall

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Icap Equities, Dow Jones, Groupon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Stocks, Nasdaq, Reuters, S&P 500, China, Investors, Business News

* Banks, natural resources shares lead declines * JPMorgan shares down, executive departs after huge loss * S&P 500 breaks support at 1,...

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Dow Jones Industrial Average Sees Fifth Straight Day Of Declines

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Stocks, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Bailouts, Nasdaq, S&P 500, New York Stock Exchange, Political Instability, Austerity, Business News

Political uncertainty in debt-hobbled Europe spread to financial markets Tuesday and pushed stocks lower in Europe and the United States. The Dow Jon...

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Happy Friday! Wall Street Closes Out Worst Week Of The Year

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Stock Market May, Wall Street Week, Wall Street, Stocks May, S&P 500, Nasdaq, Business News

NEW YORK — Stocks plunged Friday after the government reported that hiring slowed sharply last month. The report confirmed investors' fears that...

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Stocks Add To Gains In Late Rally

Reuters | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Stock Market Rally, Video, Dow Jones, Stocks, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Reuters, Stock Gains, Nasdaq, Business News, S&P 500, Stocks Extend Gains, Business News

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to gains in a late rally on Thursday, with the Dow rising 1 percent and the S&P 500 and the Nas...

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Decoupling Myth Destroyed

Michael Pento | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Manufacturing, Stagflation, Eurozone, Shanghai Composite Index, Ecb, S&P 500, Economic Crisis, Business News
Michael Pento

Downward pressure on the U.S. economy is already becoming apparent. Data on home sales, industrial production, jobless claims and regional manufacturing surveys have all recently disappointed.

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Companies Have Cash, Won't Share

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Job Market, Mergers and Acquisitions, Companies, Employment, Dealmakers, Hiring, Corporate Spending, S&P 500, Mergers, Deals, Video, Business News

Companies around the world have tons of cash and talk all big about how confident they are about the economy, and yet they're sitting on their hands w...

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Best Rally In A Month

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Bond Market, Video, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Stocks, Djia, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Bonds, Nasdaq, S&P, Europe, Corporate Earnings, S&P 500, Business News

The U.S. stock market has shaken off its worst plunge in months by having a crazy two-day rally, fueled mainly by wishful thinking. The Dow Jones I...

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Major U.S. Corporations Squeezing Even More Money Out Of Employees

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Productivity Per Employee, Revenue Per Employee, Corporate Profits, Employee Revenue, S&P 500, Video, Profit, Profits, Revenue, Revenue Employee, Revenues, S&P 500 Companies, Productivity, Employee Productivity, Business News

Major corporations are making certain they get their money's worth out of each individual employee. S&P 500 companies made an average $420,000 in ...

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Stocks Close At Highest Level Since Before Crisis

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Video, Dow Jones, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Business News, Financial Crisis, Dow Jones Industrial Average Close, S&P 500, S&P 500 Index, Equities, Business News

-- STRONG RISE: U.S. stocks rose to multi-year highs on Monday after a positive report on U.S. manufacturing. The Institute for Supply Management sai...

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Healthy Pull-Back?

Michael Farr | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Consumer, Employment-Data-Economy, Volatility, qe3, Stock Market, Federal Reserve, Information Technology, S&P 500, Treasury Yields, Business News
Michael Farr

The media were all abuzz following yesterday's much-anticipated sell-off in stocks. Prior to yesterday's 1.5 percent drop, the S&P 500 had gone 44 st...

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The Bull Market That No One Believes

Mitch Feierstein | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Commodities Prices, Iran Oil Price, Stock Market, Monetary Policy Oil, Oil Gas Price, Gold Prices, Federal Reserve Policy, S&P 500, Fed Monetary Policy, Bull Market, U.S. Bull Market, Business News
Mitch Feierstein

It might not feel that way to you, but we've just lived through one of the greatest bull markets in history. Almost exactly three years ago, the S&P 500 stood at 683, a decline of more than half from its highs of 2007.

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The Wheels On the Justice Bus Go Slowly Round And Round

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Stocks, Allen Stanford, Stock Market, Seven and a Half Things to Know, Dow, 7.5 Things, S&P 500, Video, Mark Gongloff Things to Know, Apple, Seven and a Half Things You Need to Know, Seven and a Half Things, Greece, Dow Jones Industrial Average, 7 1/2 Things, Things You Need to Know Today, Business News

You need eight ounces to make a cup, but only seven and a half things are necessary for knowing each day. Here's your daily allotment: Thing One: S...

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Mark Gongloff

Reality Check Sends Stocks To Worst Loss of 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Sovereign Debt, Dow Jones, Greece, Stocks, Economy, Bonds, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Europe, S&P 500, China, Business News

Boy, the stock market sure sobered up in a hurry, didn't it? All at once, after rallying relentlessly all year, stocks caught a case of the heebie-...

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Apple Hits Huge Milestone

AP | BY PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Iphone, Video, Apple, Apple Inc, Exxon Mobil, Apple Market Capitalization, Tim Cook, Apple Market Cap, S&P 500, Ipad, Apple 500 Billion, Technology News

NEW YORK — Apple's market capitalization topped $500 billion Wednesday, climbing to a mountain peak where few companies have ventured – an...

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Average-Joe Millionaires Turn Out For Apple Shareholder Meeting

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Shareholders, Stock Market, Millionaires, S&P 500, Apple Millionaires, Apple Stock, Apple Investors, Investors, Apple China, Video, Apple, Apple Factory, Cupertino, Apple Shareholder Meeting, Apple Shares, Apple China Factory, Apple Shareholders, Business News

Ever wish you'd gotten in on the ground floor of a company like Apple, Google or Microsoft? Apple's most recent shareholder meeting, which took pl...

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Why Activist Investors Are Turned Off By Facebook

Reuters | Paritosh Bansal | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: U.S. Public Markets, Video, Jive Software Inc, Hedge Funds, Angie's List Inc, Reuters, Ipo, Groupon Inc, Zillow Inc, Pandora Media Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, FriendFinder Networks Inc, LinkedIn Corp, S&P 500, Zynga Inc, Business News

By Paritosh Bansal NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings...

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Mark Gongloff

The Stock Rally That Nobody Believes Hits New Highs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Stock Market Rally, Mutual Funds, Stocks, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Nasdaq, S&P 500, Investors, Business News

The stock market's recent wild run is like one of those mass UFO sightings: Everybody sees it, but nobody believes it. The Dow Jones industrial ave...

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Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes At Highest Level Since Before Crisis

AP | MATTHEW CRAFT | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Treasury Department, Video, Unemployment Rate, Wall Street, Stocks, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Labor Department, Nasdaq, Bank of America, S&P 500, Business News

NEW YORK — A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years propelled the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to its highest c...

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S&P Flat For The Year

Reuters | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Video, Wall Street, Stocks, Stock Markets, Stock Market, Reuters, Business News, Equity Markets, U.S. Stocks, S&P 500 Index 2011, S&P 500, S&P 500 Index, Business News

* S&P flat on year, Dow higher, Nasdaq lower * European shares post steepest annual fall in 3 yrs * Bank of America is Dow's worst perform...

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Richer Than Rich: Art Outperforms S&P

Kia Makarechi | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Investments, Video, Art, Art Sales, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Auctions, Art Investment, Artnet, l.s. Lowry, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, S&P 500, Clyfford Still, Arts News

If you ever find yourself choosing between some Warhols or a few stocks, we're here to make that decision easier. A new study has found that artwork b...

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Time Running Out For S&P 500 To End Positively, As Euro Crisis Looms

Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, European Debt Crisis S&p, Stock Market, Euro Debt Crisis, Business News, Markets-News, Equity Markets, U.S. Stocks, U.S. Stock Market, S&P 500, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With two weeks left in the trading year, the euro zone debt crisis will remain the primary impediment to pushing the S&P 500 ...

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U.S. Financial Sector By Far The Worst Performer In S&P 500 This Year

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Video, Wells Fargo Advantage Funds, JMP Securities, Financial Sector, Wall Street, Assets Under Management, Bank of New York MellonBank of America, Standard & Poor's Equity Research, S&P 500, US Bancorp, Business News

(Angela Moon and Ryan Vlastelica) - Even experienced Wall Street contrarians are eyeing the beaten-down U.S. financial sector warily. The secto...

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Best And Worst Run Companies In America

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: American Airline, Bankruptcy, 24/7 Wall St., Companies, Corporations, Oracle, Starbucks, Eastman Kodak, Management, S&P 500, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have ...

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Post Euro Deal, Investors Brace For Big Moves

AP | BERNARD CONDON | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Eu Treaty, Video, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Wall Street Investors, European Union, Eu Treaty Deal, Eu, Europe, Eu Deal, S&P 500, Investors, Business News

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) – Europe's fiscal pact may save the euro from collapse and stave off worldwide financial panic. But the concerns ...

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